i'm level 80
I have 700 life and 360 mana.
My skills are as follows:
1 to Amplify Damage
1 to Bone Armor
1 to Teeth
1 to dim vision (on the way to attract but ran out of points)
20 to Bone Wall
20 to Bone Prison
20 to Bone Spear
20 to Corpse Explosion
My gear is:
Helm: shako
armor: skin of the vipermagi
weapon: deaths web wand
shield: homunculus
boots: (currently random crap pair)
gloves: magefist
belt: arachnid
rings: random crap
on switch I have umes lament wand (give me decrepify)
stats are 58 str for homonculus enough dex for 75% block and all the rest in vitality.
my merc is level 76 act 2 normal with prayer.
he has as a weapon bonehew ogre axe
his helm is guilliuames face (he needs the +str for weapon and armor)
his armor is corpsemourn
i have decent gear I'm high level followed the guide and for some reason i die really quickly and can't kill anything and my merc dies the whole time. ( yes I remember to use bone armor)
my bonspear does only 1400-1500 dmg
my merc does 475-1850 dmg
I simply never manage to kill the first body to let of a corpse explosion and even if i do it takes like 8 explosions for everyone to die and drains my mana really quickly..
I need help because i was really looking forward to this build and need to know what I'm doing wrong.|||-use prison. i can tell you're not because you're dying.
-insight would be great to have
-better weapon|||I needed to give my merc an Insight polearm and develop a willingness to spam bone wall to get over the hump. Just immobilize everything with bone wall (or prison) so you can work. Its a mana intensive build, so since merc has GFace, get that Insight.|||++ to insight
you are going to need to spam bone prison / wall, and corpse explosion, so insight is essential. It can be an iron golem later on, but until you're to the point where you're not dying much anymore it obviously needs to be on your merc.|||You have spent only 84 skill points at level 80, I guess you haven't done the skill point rewarding quests in nightmare and hell? That would net you enough points to get a clay golem and get attract.
Also Deaths Web is awesome for Poison Nova, but for explosionmancer a "white" wand with +3 bone spear base would be better, you can buy these from Drognan in act 2 normal.
Finally +++ to insight, and switch out corpsemourn.(maybe a duress?)|||So i'll get an insight what stats for insight should i be aiming for and what is price? (Europe ladder) i dont want to get scammed, I can afford to pay 1-2 ist for insight, maybe 3 if i can get another one.
what helm should my merc have? and what armor? (he dies super fast)
I just got attract and clay golem, how should i be utilizing them with other skills?
my bonespear does really low dmg and takes ages to kill anything, should it be so bad? should the monsters not be hitting me at all? coz i die really fast.|||the only stat you care about is the level of the meditation aura. Damage is always nice of course, but not as important for a bonemancer as a summoner. I've never traded for one, they're all incredibly low runes so I always have enough to re-roll at least 5 insights just from leveling up.
If you want an ethereal one I suppose that would be the primary cost point.|||I am currently making an explosionmancer too, and I gotta say its great fun spamming spears and CE.
My stats and skill are basically similar to yours, except I have
156str for spirit (for the 35fcr and mana boost)
base dex (I find it unnecessary cuz dim vision curse disables most ranged attackers)
rest into vita (for max tanking ability)
base energy (duh...)
20 bonespear
20 bone wall
20 bone prison
1 bone spirit (thinking of reassigning it to other bone skills)
10'ish corpse explosion (for a fairly decent range - currently 10yards after gear boost)
1 bone armor
1 raise skeleton (meat shield)
1 clay golem (great slow effects on boss)
1 golem mastery (added bonus for clay golem)
1 summon resist (for keeping minions alive better - after gear boost ofc)
1 amp dmg (prerequisite)
1 weaken (prerequisite)
1 terror (prerequisite)
1 decrepify (vs pys immunes & slow effect on mobs & especially bosses)
1 dim vision (godly skill for us range attacks)
My current gear are;
shako
enigma (used to be a vipermagi for fcr & resist)
hoto
trang glove (extra curse skills)
trang belt (waiting to use spider)
marrowwalk boots (str & dex bonus and for +1 or 2 skele mastery bonus - pretty good if you have enough +skills from gear to allow for a decent bonus to your skele minions)
20mara (cuz I simply cant find a better one)
soj (duh...)
10fcr ring with mods (to hit 125fcr in the near future after putting on spider)
low anni (always a good thing to have)
low ntorch (for +3 skills)
a couple of life scs
1bo cta & lidless on switch
At the moment, i have 1.2k life & over 600mana before bo.
Bone spear dmg is a little low, but I find it sufficient atm but might feel differently as I advance beyond act 2 hell. Corpse explosion is an overpowered skill in pvm vs mobs, but all I usually need is my insight merc and my 1pter summons.
I almost always use dim vision curse wherever I go, and only resort to decrepify on rare occasions. I have considered removing the 1pters from my summons and putting them into bone synergies, and relying on bone prisons in hell, but I like having a couple of summons to keep stray mobs busy while I spear their arse for that first corpse for explosion.
I hope this will give you some insight into my playstyle and perhaps improve on yours. BTW, insight is fairly cheap if you just want the meditation aura. A non-ethereal pole should suffice, but an ethereal elite pole might cost you.
Goodluck.|||thanks everyone, would still like some comments on rest of gear for merc =]
and also can someone explain this whole white wand thing? dont understand it
do i have to find a wand and socket it with larzuk? or find socketed
found this at shop:
http://gyazo.com/7d16adb4713616c3129fc8111e930521.png
any good?|||anything with +3 bone spear is fine. Obviously it's nice if it has decrep and attract to save on points, but not really necessary.
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